• ISBN13: 9788126923076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Education & Psychology
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 15, 2017
• Pages: 432
• Original Price: INR 1195.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 557 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): N/A

The book on Human Development and Sustainability: Challenges and Strategies is the outcome of the Fifth Biannual Seminar of International Consortium for Social Development—Asia Pacific (ICSDAP) held at the Department of Social Work, Visva-Bharati ‘Sriniketan’, India. It has unleashed main challenges and strategies for human development and sustainability in the Asian century. The book also critically analyzes growing inequality and neglect of local level development. There are total 28 papers divided into three sections. “Human Development and Sustainability: A Discourse,” “Sectoral Issues and Challenges, and “Strategies for Human Development.” The book will be useful for the multidisciplinary professionals and practitioners from the field of social work, social welfare, social development, education, health, and management, including policymakers. Readers will find it informative, constructive and redolent in the context of diversified emerging social issues and methodology.

Asok Kumar Sarkar, an alumnus of Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Jawaharlal Nehru University, is Professor and former Head of Department of Social Work, Visva-Bharati ‘Sriniketan’. Before joining the present position, he served in Institute of Health Management, Pachod; Department of Social Work, Assam University, Silchar; and School of Social Work, IGNOU, New Delhi in different capacities. He has authored and edited books including NGOs: The New Lexicon of Health Care (Concept); NGOs and Globalization: Developmental and Organizational Facets (Rawat), and contributed papers in many academic and peer reviewed journals. He has been serving as editor of Journal of Social Work and Social Development since 2010. His areas of research interests include maternal morbidity, reproductive health, health care, NGOs and social development. Prasanta Kumar Ghosh is Professor and Head of the Department of Social Work, Visva-Bharati. He is a proactive social work educator, researcher and activist. He has served as Reader in the Department of Personnel Management & Industrial Relations at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and as Principal of Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Visva-Bharati. He is a Fulbright Fellow on Academic Administration. He has been a Visiting Professor at the School of Social Work, of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Campaign and as Dominican University, Chicago, USA. He has published articles in books and journals in the area of social welfare and social development at the national and international levels. He has also published a number of research papers and attended national and international seminars and conferences. Apart from his academic activities, he has been engaged in promoting rural entrepreneurship for livelihood development for the last three decades.

• Preface
• Contributors

• Section – I Human Development and Sustainability: A Discourse

• 1. Sustainable Development: Asian Scenario
• A.K. Ghosh
• 2. Paradox of Development in the South-Eastern Hills of Bangladesh: ‘Development for the People, without the People’
• Ala Uddin
• 3. Components of Sustainability: Vision of Rabindranath Tagore
• Kumkum Chattopadhyay
• 4. Shifting to Sustainable Lifestyles: An Urgent Need for Achieving Sustainable Development
• Sharmila Yadav
• 5. Climate Change Threat to Sustainable Agriculture
• Kishore C. Swain and Chiranjit Singha
• 6. Comparing Health Care Schemes of Selected Countries in Asia: Issues of Sustainability
• Paramita Roy
• 7. Physical Health, Students’ Achievements and Social Sustainability
• Mita Howladar

• Section – II Sectoral Issues and Challenges

• 8. The ‘Nowhere Children’: ‘Invisible’ Everywhere
• Aditi Bhowmick and Kuntal Chattopadhyay
• 9. Changing Status of Khasi (Tribe): An Experience of Rural Meghalaya
• Bhola Nath Ghosh
• 10. Female Migration in Tribal Community: A Study of Jharkhand
• Milka Gladish Kuzur
• 11. Political Participation of Women in Rural Birbhum: A Study of Scope and Challenges
• Prosenjit Saha
• 12. Violence against Women in Private Sphere and Challenges of Sustainable Human Development:
• A Study on Married Women in Barddhaman
• Rupa Biswas and Asok Kumar Sarkar
• 13. Migration and Slavery among Katkari Nomads in Maharashtra: A Stumbling Block towards Optimum
• Human Development
• Roshni Louis Alphanso
• 14. Respiratory Health Assessment using Spirometry: A Study of School Going Children of Bolpur and Durgapur
• Suraj Ghosh, Chandan Kumar Majee and Pratap Kumar Padhy

• Section – III Strategies for Human Development

• 15. Benefits of Oral-Aural Rehabilitation of Children with Hearing Impairment: A Discussion through Two Case Studies
• Angshu Jajodia
• 16. Technology Upgradation in Marine Fishing and Empowerment of Fishermen: A Comparative Analysis
• Bela Das
• 17. IT Literacy and Singapore Seniors: A Qualitative Study
• Kalyani K. Mehta
• 18. Traditional Knowledge in Relation to Human Affairs
• Bholanath Mondal, Palash Mondal and Mrinal Kanti Dasgupta
• 19. Livelihood through Adaptation and Diversification in Flood Prone Areas in West Bengal
• Debashis Sarkar and Sumantra Hazra
• 20. Prevention of Abuse through Elderly Empowerment in Community: Experiences of Selected Cases
• Richa Chowdhary and Deepshikha Chowdhary
• 21. Biogas Production from Locally Available Aquatic Weed (Water Hyacinth and Salvinia) in Santiniketan Using Cow Dung as an Inoculum
• Indranil Bhui, Anil Kr. Mathew, Sambhu Nath Banerjee, Shibani Chaudhury and Srinivasan Balachandranvi
• 22. Towards Attaining Sustainable Health Care Services: A Study in Bolpur Sriniketan Block, Birbhum, West Bengal
• Sekhar Sain and Prasanta Kumar Ghosh
• 23. Gender Sensitization and Implications of Critical Pedagogy
• A. Radhika
• 24. Building Resilient Civil Society Communities to Address HIV among Married Women in Rural India
• A Rights’ Perspective
• Tapati Dutta
• 25. Improving the Quality of Services in Public and Private Healthcare Institutions: A Human Development Approach
• Reeti Debnath
• 26. Biogas: Viable Green Energy for the Rural Indian Population
• Amit K. Chakraborty, Ramansu Goswami, Debasree Sinha, Sambhu N. Banerjee, S. Balachandran and Shibani Chaudhury
• 27. Exploring Gender Involvement in Agriculture
• Suvashree Behera
• 28. Relevance of Village Industries in the Socio-Economic Development of Tribal People in Arunachal Pradesh
• Sukamal Deb